Operating alternate-current motors



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OPERATING ALTERNATE OUBIRENT MOTORS. No. 392,470. Patented Nov. 6, 1888.

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OPERATING ALTERNATE CURRENT MOTORS.

No. 392,470. Patented Nov. 6, 1888.

[ Mn 91 772 P UNITED STATES PATENT XVILLIAM STANLEY, JR, OF GREAT BARRINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE \VESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COIllPANY, OF PITTS- FURG, PEJNSYLV A NlA.

OPERATING ALTERNATE-CURRENT MOTORS.

SPECIFICATION forming; part of Letters Patent No. 392,470, dated November 6, 1888.

Application filed December 9, 1987.

T0 aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM STANLEY, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing in Great Barrington, in the county of Berkshire, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Method of Operating AlternateCnrrent Electric Motors, (Case 192,) of which the following is a specification.

The invention rclalcs to the construction of motors designed to be driven by alternating electric currents.

In operating an electric motor by alternating electric currents, if the currents are sent through the armature and the field-magnet coils there will be a rapid change of polarity both in the armature and in the field-magnet; butif the connections are such as to cause the poles of the fieldmagnet and the corresponding approaching poles of the armature to be opposite in character there will be an attraction exerted which will tend to revolve the armature until the opposite poles confront each other. The relations of the coils of the field-magnet or of the armature must therefore be changed at this point, so that a repulsive force will be exerted between the two to cause the continued movement of the armature. This is effected by means of a commutator. In this manner the armature may be caused to start and revolve up to a given speed; but for the purpose of avoiding the necessity of reversing the polarity of the fieldanagnets at each reversal of the alternate current the direction of the current through the holdmagnets is rendered constant by a suitable commutator, which is so organized as to re verse the connections of the field-magnet with each reversal in the direction of the current. XVith such an organization it is found that the rate of rotation of the armature will fluctuate that is to say, it will first rise to a speed proportionate to the number of alternations occurring in the direction of the current and will then fall behind or lag, and then accelerate again, thus causing a constant variation in the speed.

The special object of this invention is to overcome this defect and to render the speed constant. To accomplish this there is induced in either the Iicld magnet or in the armature a magnetization which is continuous in dircction and which is practically independent of the variations in the alternating current, or there is caused to exist a continuous torque between the two dependent upon the changes in the alternate current through one of the elements, the other having a given polarity continuously whatever he the speed of the motor. A method of carrying out the inven tion will be described in connection with the accompanying drawings.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is atheorctical diagram serving to illustrate the current phases and probable cl'lccts. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the machine, together with a diagram of the circuitconnections; and Fig. Sis an end view.

Referring to Fig. 1, F F" F" represent the field-magnet polcsol the motor; A A A,&c., the armaturccoils in their various positions; and C O G represent the commutator-connections. A line,ff, indicates the current through the field-magnet coils,and a line,ac, the current through the armatnre'coils.

."r m represent the normal or neutral line of the field-magnct current, and 9 y the neutral line of the armaturecurrent.

It is here assumed that the armature and field-magnet are connected in series; but the current through the field-magnet is so coinmutated that when the speed of the armature has risen to what may he termed the synchrouizing speed the commutator will render that current which is delivered to the fieldmagnet continuousin direction. it, therefore, the armature is revolved in the direction indicated by the arrow .2, it will be noticed that as a pole passes from the position of A to the position of A the currents in the armature and in the field-magnets are in opposite directions, and the coi'inections are assumed to be such as to produce like poles at F and A. 'lTherefore a repulsion is exerted which causes the armature to move in the direction indi catcd. The character of the pole of the armatnre,hov.*ever, remains the same until it reaches the position A, where the current having fallen to the normal 1 9 the polarization is reduced to zero; but from the position A to the XCO scams 1 the pole of the armature; but it will be noticed 4 that at the point A opposite to the pole 0 be a fluctuation in its rate.

there will be no force tending to further revolve the armature, for the reason that there is no south pole as yet established at A, and the current of the field-magnethas fallen to the Z6IO*I)O1Ilh, as indicated by the linef, touching the normal :20. Therefore the power of the motor at this moment is very much reduced. When, therefore, the speed of the motor has once risen to such a point that the neutral points in the currents occur simultaneously with the arrival of the poles of the armature opposite the poles of the field-magnet, then themotor is in such condition that its strength is lesseningand therefore its speed of rotation will fall. This will cause the armature to lag, so that the reversals will take place slightly before the arrival of the armature-poles at the points opposite the field -n1agnet poles, and thus the tendency will again be to accelerate the movement of the armature, and there will \Vhen the armature has reached the neutral point and passed beyond toward the position A, the direction of the current through the field-magnet has been rectified by the plate 0 so that it is rep resented by the full line f instead of by the dotted linef. If,now,some means are devised for rendering the polarization of thefield-magnet approximately constant, or, in other words, rendering the line f f more nearly parallel with the line m x, then there will be a more constant force impelling the armature. This is accomplished by means of the supplemental current which is indicated by the line f f. This current tends to magnetize the field-magnets constantly in a given direction. By reason of the inductive action in the supplemental circuit applied to the field-magnet, the latter acting in some sense as thesecondary of an induction-coil of which the circuit traversed by the current f f is the primary, the rise and fall of current f f will be materially modified. In practice, however, it is found that other effects combine to produce a very nearly constant field.

For the purpose of carrying the invention into practice many different devices may be employed. A convenient form is that shown in Figs. 2 and 3, in which F F represent the field-magnets of the motor, and A the armature. The field-magnet is wound with coilsf f, and the armature with coils a a. The coils a are connected through collecting-rings b I)", and their corresponding brushes, (1 d. with the conductors l and 2. from one terminal of a suitable source of alternating electric currents such, for instance, as the secondary coil S of a converter whose primary coil is shown at P. The conductor 2 leads to a commutating-brush, 6, applied to a commutator, O. The terminals of the fieldmagnet coils f f are connected with two brushes, 7r k applied to the respective sides transmitting alternating The conductor 1 leadsc and d of the commutator C, while the brush a corresponding to the brush 6, is connected through a conductor, 3, with the other terminal of the coil S. The brushes e and 6 make alternate contact with the plates 0 and a. By this means the direction of the current through the field-magnet coils will be reversed at each pole-passage of the armature, so that when the speed of the armature corresponds to the alternations of the current the current through the field magnet will be continuous in direction. The supplemental current is in this instance applied through supplemental coils f f, the terminals of which are connected by conductors 4 and 5 with the contact-brushes p and p of a supplemental generator carried upon the armature-shaft of the motor. This generator may have its field-magnet poles thrown out from the bearing K of the armature-shaft of the motor, as shown at m m and supplied with coils 0 and 0 The armature is provided with a commutator, r, and is a self-exciting ma chine of any suitable character. The brushes 1) and p are applied to the commutator 1'. It is not necessary, however, to generate this supplemental current by a separate exciter in the precise manner shown; but various means may be resorted to for obtaining a constant current which shall serve to magnetize the field-magnets of the motor in the general manner described.

A machine organized in this manner will have the advantage of creating within itself the counter electro-motive force which will regulate the current flowing through it in much the manner of an ordinary direct-current machine. Vhen the motor has acquired a proper speed,the field-magnet coilsff may,ifitis desired, be out out of circuit by an automatic or hand devicesuch, for instance, as a switch, It.

I claim as my invention 1.. The hereinbefore-described method of operating electric motors, which consists in bringing the motor to a synchronized speed by commutatingcurrents to produce in the field-magnet such a polarity as will cause a continuous torque between the armature and field-magnets, and in supplying independent currents continuous in direction and thereby rendering the strength of the field-magnet approximately constant. 2. The hereinbeforedescribed method of operating electric motors, which consists in electric currents through the armature, and in generating continuous electric currents in an independent circuit by the movement of the armature and creating a field for the armature by such continuous currents.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this 6th day of December, A. D. 1887.

VILLIAM STANLEY, JR.

Witnesses:

DANL. W. Enenoosrn, CHARLES A. TERRY.

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